There on his screen, he saw a small ad in an 1852 newspaper. The ad
promised "A Rich Revelation": A six-installment piece of fiction called
"Life and Adventures of Jack Engle" was coming soon to the Sunday
Dispatch, a three-penny weekly published in Manhattan...
The novel is also being published, in book form, by the University of Iowa Press...
"Jack Engle," the story of an orphan's adventures, can be classified as
sentimentalism, Turpin said. The serial appeared "unsigned, practically
unheralded and riddled with typographical errors" — and then, he said,
"it sank like a stone." The story received little response. It was never
reprinted or reviewed. And Whitman never mentioned it again...
The discovery of new work by Whitman is a major find, said Stephen
Enniss, director of the Harry Ransom Center, a massive arts and
humanities archive at the University of Texas at Austin...

Maynard (Bob "Gilligan's Island" Denver) slyly flashes a nipple to the CBS eye while trying to talk his best buddy Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hick­man) into taking off all his clothes. Whoever said 1950s television was a vast waste­land obviously didn't know where to look.